Babak Falsafi, is a Professor in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences and the founding director of the EcoCloud research center at EPFL. He has made numerous contributions to computer system design and evaluation including multiprocessor architecture for the WildCat/WildFire severs by Sun Microsystems (now Oracle), memory prefetching technologies in IBM BlueGene and ARM cores, and server evaluation methodologies used by AMD, HPE and Google PerfKit. His recent work on workload-optimized server processors lays the foundation for Cavium ThunderX. He is a fellow of ACM and IEEE.
